Too Big to Rig

Andrew Egger: “The whole game changed last night. We’re all still grappling with what Democrats’ once-in-a-century rout will mean…. Trumpism has not been fully defeated, not yet. But one of its darkest elements has been smashed for good.”

“In 2020, Trump tried to steal a presidential election by sheer force. After he failed, he and his movement spent years systematically grinding down the institutions that got in his way. After his re-election, he stocked the government with loyalists and attempted to seize unprecedented federal control over elections. The inescapable question has hung in the air like a miasma: What happens if he tries to do it again?”

“Last night, those fears popped like a soap bubble. Whatever dirty tricks Trump might have been planning—and you can bet he was planning them—were trampled by the stampede of the Democratic wave, which was, to borrow a phrase, too big to rig.”